Benefits, challenges and sustainability of digital healthcare for NHS Wales: a qualitative study.

Introduction: Digital healthcare in the UK was adopted out of necessity rather than choice during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, as we move forward, UK governments and healthcare services have acknowledged its evident benefits for patients, staff and the National Health Service (NHS), and are keen to sustain its improvements in the long term.

Objective: To understand the benefits, challenges and sustainability of a future-proof digital healthcare.

Digital NHS Wales: a coding reliability analysis based on the voices of 22 978 patients and clinicians on the benefits, challenges and sustainability of video consulting.

Introduction: The use of video consulting (VC) in Wales UK has expanded rapidly. Previous VC evidence has been the subject of small-scale projects and evaluations. Technology Enabled Care Cymru is an all-Wales digital service and rolls out digital interventions and evaluates on large scales, thus capturing representative data sets across Wales, and therefore a wide range of National Health Service (NHS) specialties.

Early evidence and lessons learnt from an NHS Wales Video Consulting Service.

The use of video consulting (VC) in Wales, United Kingdom (UK) has expanded rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Traditionally, VC has been the subject of small-scale projects and evaluations. In response to the pandemic emergency, there was an opportunity to roll out and evaluate VC on a larger and more representative scale, across a wider range of National Health Service (NHS) specialities.

Taming the chaos: NHS professionals' perspective of using video consulting during COVID-19 in Wales.

Unlabelled: The use of video consulting (VC) in the UK has expanded rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Technology Enabled Care (TEC) Cymru, the Welsh Government and Local Health boards began implementing the National Health Service (NHS) Wales VC Service in March 2020. This has been robustly evaluated on a large-scale All-Wales basis, across a wide range of NHS Wales specialities.

Remote mental health services: a mixed-methods survey and interview study on the use, value, benefits and challenges of a national video consulting service in NHS Wales, UK.

Unlabelled: Social distancing laws during the first year of the pandemic, and its unprecedented changes to the National Health Service (NHS) forced a large majority of services, especially mental health teams to deliver patient care remotely. For many, this approach was adopted out of necessity, rather than choice, thus presenting a true 'testing ground' for remote healthcare and a robust evaluation on a national and representative level.

Objective: To extract and analyse mental health specific data from a national dataset for 1 year (March 2020-March 2021).